Hulk Hogan’s Daughter Drops Bombshell on WWE Legend’s Passing—Shocking Twist Revealed!

It should have been a time for peace and remembrance—the world honoring a legend, and a family mourning together in private. But when wrestling icon Hulk Hogan passed away, what followed was a media firestorm, family turmoil, and a shocking twist revealed on “TMZ Live” by none other than his daughter, Brooke Hogan.

With trembling words and tears not far behind, Brooke opened up about what really happened in those final years between her and her father—and why she made the gut-wrenching decision not to attend his funeral, despite the storm of rumors and public scrutiny.

“I can love, love, love my dad… but my dad and I have been through a lot of stuff over the years,” Brooke confessed, her voice quivering with equal parts pain and loyalty. She painted a picture of a complex relationship—one filled with private surgeries, public scandals, and wounded trust. “If you want to give it a quick Google, anybody can find out the hurt that has happened to me over the years. And I’ve always, always put my dad first. That’s my daddy.”

Despite the fierce love, there was a river of unresolved pain. Brooke described supporting Hulk through excruciating surgeries and the battles that defined his twilight years in the public eye. But as the years wore on, so did the damage—misunderstandings, tabloid headlines, and, most poignantly, his infamous sex tape saga with its racial slurs and pointed remarks about Brooke’s personal life.

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“I never got a direct apology for that,” she admitted, choking back tears. “It was extremely embarrassing for me.”

Brooke insisted she wasn’t after fame, money, or drama. “I relied on my father for nothing financially… since I was 18 years old. Everybody else relied on him for a paycheck. Now that golden goose is gone.” The tension boiled over in the year before Hogan’s passing, as family squabbles and rumors escalated, and Brooke made the controversial decision to remove herself as a beneficiary from her father’s will. “I want no part of it… I’ve already had to witness my dad go through 15 years of legal battles, depositions. Our whole life has been lawsuits. All I want is to be at the beach with my babies and my husband and do my own thing. Leave me alone.”

Funeral plans, too, became a point of public fascination—and judgment. Brooke revealed that her father never wanted a typical funeral. “He didn’t like the morbidity of funerals, he hated it… If he knew he were being carted around for two weeks for show, with people that didn’t really know him, celebrities and stuff, is this for my dad or is this for everybody else?” Instead, she says, she honored his final wish by standing with her children at the Gulf of Mexico, feet in the water, as his ashes were scattered.

Despite estrangement, Brooke found peace in their bond, even if some wounds would never fully heal. “My dad knows how much I love him. I was my dad’s running mate… my dad confided in me before he married [his last wife]. He wasn’t confiding in anybody else. Me and him were like best friends.” The rift, she explains, was about setting healthy boundaries and rejecting negative influences, not any lack of love.

But the shockwaves haven’t faded with Hulk Hogan’s passing. Rumors, accusations, and public statements still swirl. Brooke bristled at accusations of being after her father’s wealth, reaffirming again and again: “I don’t care about the money… that goes to show you I’m not in it for the money. I’m more concerned about you.”

Now, as she fields media inquiries and family backlash, Brooke’s breaking point has become her declaration: “I know too much. I’ve been through too much. I am not to be played with… My dad has finally been put to rest. Leave him alone. Leave me alone. And let the poor man go to heaven and just end it.”

Brooke Hogan’s raw confession is a reminder that behind every headline lies a family—flawed, hurting, and just trying to move on. The world may remember Hulk Hogan as a wrestling god and a pop culture icon, but for Brooke, the struggle is to remember him as a father—complicated, sometimes callous, but always, in some way, hers.

Whether the wounds can ever fully heal is a question only time can answer—but one thing is certain: this chapter, with all its private heartbreak and public spectacle, will not soon be forgotten.